Boston College political science professor Susan Meld Shell plans a free lecture titled "Are All Rights Human Rights? Personhood from Hobbes to Citizens United" at 7:30 p.m. March 14 in the auditorium of the Marjorie Barrick Museum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway.

The author of three books on Immanuel Kant, Shell plans to address issues of granting legal protections routinely afforded to humans to animals and corporations.

Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, before you make plans to go you might want to know that the event is being funded by the Koch brothers.

What are we to glean from the fact that the Koch Brothers are quietly going about financing lectures and other programs on university campuses?

If you go, take what you hear with a grain of salt. The academic value of this lecture is highly questi